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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

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Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott has spent years boosting a federal program to support minority-owned businesses. The Trump administration dismantled it in a matter of weeks. Scott shamelessly hasn’t said a peep about it.

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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This is all true. It’s also true that Musk and his minions aren’t actually saving the government much at all, if anything

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Hegseth needs to be fired. The intel he shared via Signal, including to his wife, was sent to him on a secure channel. He knowingly exposed our pilots to unnecessary danger with his show boat antics.

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Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.

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How we reported “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

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NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

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SCOTUS on 4/10: “The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador…” DOJ on 4/21: Objects “based on the false premise that the United States can or has been ordered to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador.”

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Now that there are two Pete Kegsbreath scandals about exposing American troops via Signal group chats, don't let this scandal die until he is driven from office. Of course, the next person will be just as morally awful, but maybe not as completely incompetent.

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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REMINDER: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

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Well played

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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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The head of Homeland Security lost her badge, passport, & $3k in cash. Her reputation for being an ineffective cosplaying figure head remains in tact.

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"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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Quelle surprise. And I had thought that she was one of the least bad of Trump's health nominees. Silly me!

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“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

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Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

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Closing down embassies across Africa, treating Canada like it’s…not a foreign country, gutting our ability to gather intelligence and talk to leaders in other countries (also known as “diplomacy”)…Secretary Rubio, resign in protest and shame.

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“‘Even assuming the Administration now wishes to take back its litany of breathtakingly intrusive demands,’ the university said in its statement, ‘it appears to have doubled down on those demands through its deeds in recent days.  ‘Actions speak louder than words.’”

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Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere

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Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the official account of the White House - is it being run by a six year old?

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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

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Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role.

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WOW: Massive crowds in New York City right now for the 50501 National Day of Action against the Trump regime.

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💯 this!!!

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While Food and Drug Administration inspectors who make sure food and drugs meet quality standards were spared in recent cuts, key support staffers were dismissed.

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"Whoever thought this was cute at the time may be less giddy when this becomes evidence of intent to disobey a court order."

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Some $380 million is now in limbo after reductions in the federal workforce affected staff that run a program helping low-income people pay their energy bills. www.wired.com/story/people...

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A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students caught up in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation.

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The VA looks like it is changing course on a plan that would have threatened the privacy of veterans receiving mental health care via telehealth, according to documents obtained by NPR.

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🚨Here’s a list of just a few of the major pieces of misinformation Kennedy shared about autism🚨

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The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid. “It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”

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Why is no one talking about the millions of Americans the House GOP wants to uninsure? Thank Punchbowl.

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WTH? Now we know why he is gutting regulations and regulators.

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"This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what's going on. And it also shows the lengths Trump will go to" -- Van Hollen details how the photos appearing to show him and Abrego Garcia with margaritas were staged by the government of El Salvador

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Source at VA tells me an emergency data request went out demanding info any on relationships the 2nd largest Fed department and largest healthcare system in the US has with Harvard. We know there are significant research connections. This won't hurt Harvard. It will kill veterans. They don't care.

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Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.

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